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Monday, 13 August 2018

ABU JIHAD – A HISTORY OF PALESTINIAN TERROR - AND CORBYN.

British Labour leader and potential British Prime Minister, Jeremy Corbyn, may claim amnesia
about laying a wreath at the grave of Abu Jihad, but it is impossible to accept
that this politician, so steeped in Hamas, Hezbollah, and the “armed resistance”
to Israel, was ignorant of whose grave he paid homage in his paid visit to
Tunis.

He would have been aware of the details of his itinerary and
approved it prior to his visit.

But, in the unlikely event that Corbyn is ignorant about the
gruesome history of Abu Jihad, here is a shortened account of this
arch-terrorist’s handiwork.

Abu Jihad was really Khalil Al-Wazir, the founder of Fatah,
second in command to Yasser Arafat, and the head of the PLO terror organization
that plagued not only Israel but the wider Middle East.

During his terror reign through the 60s and into the 80s,
125 Israelis were murdered, mainly civilians.

Abu Jihad was the mastermind behind the Munich Olympic
Games massacre that killed eleven of the finest Israeli athletes in 1972.
Incidentally, Mahmoud Abbas was the moneyman behind this very public terror
attack. His role was to dispense funds to cover the cost of the operation. Abbas
has been rewarding Palestinian terrorism ever since.

The widows of the murdered Israeli sportsmen posted a
touching response to the recent pictures of Corbyn at the graveside of the
killers of their murdered husbands,

“For Mr Corbyn to honour these
terrorists, is the ultimate act of maliciousness, cruelty and stupidity,” they said.

“Mr Corbyn has no place in politics, or in decent,
humane society when he is driven by one-sided hate and vengefulness.

“If you want a genuine transformation of politics,
Mr Corbyn, we would suggest that you first study history and understand how
terrorism undermines and vilifies society and mankind.

“You have no place in politics, or in decent, humane
society when you are driven by one-sided hate and vengefulness.

“Do not forget, Mr Corbyn, that you will be judged
by the company you keep. We do not recall a
visit of Mr Corbyn to the graves of our murdered fathers, sons and husbands.”

While conducting terror operations
from Jordan into Israel, Abu Jihad began preparing PLO fighters to usurp power
in Jordan. With a large Palestinian population, the PLO felt justified in
taking power in Jordan and using it as a springboard for ongoing attacks into
Israel. But the PLO over-reached themselves and, in what became known as Black
September, the Jordanian king ordered a major operation to drive the PLO out of
his kingdom.

They found refuge in Lebanon and
began building up their terror base in that country from which they launched
cross border raids into Israel.

During this period, Abu Jihad
planned a 1975 raid on the Savoy Hotel in Tel Aviv in which is terrorists took
civilian hostages killing eight of them as well as three Israeli soldiers.

The most lethal was the PLO-Fatah attack on an Israeli bus in
1978 on the coast road at the Glilot Junction on the northern outskirts of Tel
Aviv that resulted in the death of 37 Israelis, 12 of them children. The reason
for this attack was an attempt to scupper the proposed peace talks between
Israel and Egypt.

Abu Jihad was hailed as a hero by the Palestinians as was
one of the terrorists, Dalal Mughrabi. Abu Jihad is commemorated to this day in
numerous official Palestinian sporting and cultural events as a figure to be
emulated in Palestinian society.

More recently, Mahmoud Abbas also poured praise on Abu Jihad. In
2013. In granting him a posthumous award, Abbas said of him, “he was the model of a true fighter and devoted leader [and]
through his commitment and contribution he left his mark on the history of the
Palestinian revolution and the PLO."

Corbyn shared this admiration by agreeing to attend
the Tunis event.

Corbyn was aware, and shared, this adoration. It was an
integral part of his admiration and support for armed resistance against Israel
and its citizens.

Although exiled to Tunis, Abu Jihad
masterminded the Palestinian terror campaign against Israeli civilians that was
known as the “intifada.” Abu Jihad activated every terror cell in the
territories to attack civilian targets, including suicide attacks. He provided
them with financial support and logistical backing.

Abu Jihad was killed by an Israeli special
ops team who stormed his house in Tunis on the night of April 16, 1988.

Abu Jihad was responsible for the
deaths of 125 Israelis, the vast majority civilians and children. Yet,
following the assassination the United Nations Security Council passed
Resolution 611 condemning "the
aggression perpetrated against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of
Tunisia."

In a terror training video, Abu
Jihad can be seen exhorting his terrorists to “Blow up the whole building no
matter how many people are in there.”